All I Want for Christmas--and 4 winners! Are you one?

I liked Santa, Honey.  It's an anthology and it was really good. I have a tote filled with Next books I've been collecting and I just ordered a few that I have missing and the one you're offering as a prize is one of the ones that I ordered.  What a coincidence.

I watch the same old Christmas movies and shows.  Some of my favorites are Holiday Inn and White Christmas, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Annebelle's Wish, The Year Without a Santa Claus (with Heat Miser and Snow Miser)    Then, I like to read new Christmas them books each year.  I am all ready to order my December books this Friday and there are some good ones this year.

I can't buy them in the States because they don't play over here. (I'm told it is a different system or something.) I like to read just about any Christmas sotry, but I only re-read the classics. 

Yep, they have different formats in Europe and in the States. It was this way with the videos, too. It's so stupid. I guess they want to sell the same product twice. For instance I have this video tape (yes, it was so long time ago) from NDSU International Night and I've never been able to watch it here because you can't play American video tape in video players that are made for European format. My only hope to ever watch it is to find someone who would have the equipments to record that video on a DVD. That I could actually watch on my computer as at least those blank, recordable DVDs are neither European nor American format.

My all time favorite holiday movie is Home For The Holidays with Holly Hunter. I don't care how many times I see it I still laugh my head off. If you haven't seen it you need to look it up. It's a classic. I love holiday books too, there are a lot of Christmas anthologies and I really enjoy them.

Linda Henderson

I love those christmas hallmark movies too. I love Mircle on 34th Street, It's a wonderful Life. Santa Clauses movies with Tim Allen and so many more. Sometimes with the way I work it is hard for me to get into christmas as much like I use to, but I try. Reading a good book can help.

Tammy

My favorite Christmas movies are the holiday classics. Rudolph, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, A Year Without Santa Claus, Frosty the Snowman and Jack Frost. I also enjoy the Hallmark movies.

And out of all the Christmas themed books I've read, I have yet read one I didn't like.   

FF - isn't there any place around where you live that could convert your movies to European format for you?  I haven't done it in a while, but can remember taking a VHS tape from Europe to a specialty video place and they had the equipment to copy the European tape to a North American format.  That one was for work, but a few years later, my husband was given a VHS of a movie he had seen in Australia in the theatres.  Same thing - the format didn't work, so he went to the same place and for a very reasonable price they made a copy in the right format for him.

It was much less than buying a second copy in the right format - even if it had been available.

FF - isn't there any place around where you live that could convert your movies to European format for you?

The only problem with that is I'm cheap and in France that would cost a bomb.

I-remember-seeing-the-puppets-doing-the-'Rudolph'-thing-with-the-veteran-entertainer

Burl_Ives-providing-music-and-a-voice.

One-of-my-favorites-was-the-cartoon-version-of-"Scrooge"-with-Jim-Backus-as-Mr.MaGoo

portraying-Scrooge.The-music-and-songs-were-fabulous.

One-of-the-Lifetime-movies-I-saw-last-year-was-"The-Red_Shoes"-with-Rob_Lowe.It-was

the-story-of-a-boy-trying-to-buy-shoes-for-his-dying-mother-to-wear-for-dancing-before

she-passed-away.He-had-saved-some-money-and-was-short.Rob-Lowe-happened-to-be-in

the-store-and-paid-it-for-him.Then-the-story-fast-forwards-to-the-boy-as-an-adult-carrying

the-shoes-to-the-cemetary-and-RobLowe's-character-sees-him-and-remembers-that

snowy-night-when-he-helped-pay-for-the-shoes.

The-classics-include,"Holiday_Inn"-and-Bing_Crosby's..."White-Christmas".

"The-Santa_Clause"-with-Tim_Allen-is-also-a-fun-one-with-sequels.

O'Henry's-tales-where-the-man-sells-something-he-has-that-is-valuable-to-buy-something

for-his-wife-for-Christmas.She-has-no-money-but-sells-her-hair-to-buy-her-husband-the

container-to-hold-the-thing-he-just-sold.So,they-both-made-a-sacrifice-for-each-other.

The-old-classic-Hallmark-Hall-of-Fame-series-used-to-wear-out-the-story

"Ahmal-and-the-Night-Visitors"....

There-is-the-puppet-toon-version-of-"The-Little_Drummer-Boy".

"The-Nightmare-Before_Christmas"-is-an-animation-horror-style-cartoon.There-was-an

old-Disney-film-shown-during-the-holidays-called,"The-Snowball_Express"-with-Dean-Jones.

Its-a-Wonderful_Life-and-Miracle-on_34th-Street-are-the-main-classics-that-always-show

yearly.There-are-several-versions-of-Scrooge.Some-channels-show-the-original-British

theatrical-version.

If-I-think-of-any-more-I'll-post-it.

Aurelene

I hope everyone enjoys there books! Congrats.

Thank You!!

Congrats to the other winners: Tammy, Christa, and Moonwitch!! 

Thanks for the congrats. I can't wait to read the book. Thanks Susan.

Tammy